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Evolution of Web

The Evolution of the Web






The web today is a growing universe of interlinked web pages and web apps, teeming with videos, photos, and interactive content. What the average user doesn't see is the interplay of web technologies and browsers that makes all this possible.

Over time web technologies have evolved to give web developers the ability to create new generations of useful and immersive web experiences. Today's web is a result of the ongoing efforts of an open web community that helps define these web technologies, like HTML5, CSS3 and WebGL and ensure that they're supported in all web browsers.Since the first internet browser was launched in 1991, there has been a rapid expansion in the number of browsers and the variety of features available. They have wanted to take stock and make sense of all this innovation, and the only way they know how: visualisation! 

Hyperakt and Google Chrome felt the same way, so they worked together to create Evolution of the Web. After the warm reception of the first version, released in 2011, they made a new version using the latest visualisation technologies, including 3D effects, Canvas, CSS3 Transforms, SVG and D3.js









Web technology and the way it is used has certainly evolved over the last few years, and each evolution has brought about new tools and techniques relevant to recruiters. These evolutions have popularly been called Web 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 in the media.

Web 1.0

Although never really used to describe the web at the time, this is the term now used for basic websites that provide a limited or static user experience. This term would be used to describe the simple "shop front" websites of the past. Of course e-commerce was the main area of explosion that saw the web first used in a commercial manner. This then evolved to include sites such as ebay for online auctioning.

Web 2.0

As technology evolved, websites were able to provide a richer and more interactive user experience. Web 2.0 has been used to describe this web phenomenon. Examples include social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, which allowed users to create their own profiles, share files and interact with each other on a larger scale. YouTube allowed people to publish their own media content, blogging enabled the average net user to become a home journalist and Wikipedia has enabled the net community to develop the most comprehensive encyclopaedia ever created.

Web 3.0

The term Web 3.0 really describes the current evolutionary stage of the web and takes on many forms, from artificially intelligent applications predicting future trends to innovative web services with profitable business models, and entire 3 dimensional virtual worlds that allow people to interact with each other.

The one main concept with Web 3.0 is "the data web" or "semantic web", which in principle involves making structured data available on the Internet. Existing web pages are designed to be read by humans not machines i.e. a human can search the web for a digital camera that is cheap and offers certain features, whereas a computer would struggle to do this. As technology evolves however, an intelligent piece of software (or spider) will be able to perform these tasks for you. RSS feeds and data sharing will also continue to evolve and play a major part, as will recent concepts such as micro blogging i.e. blogging from your mobile phone. You may take a picture on holiday which will automatically be uploaded to your blog and be GPS (global positioning) tagged so you know where you were when you took it.





EVOLUTION OF WEB TECHNOLOGIES IN THE FUTURE 

Web technology has come a long way since its introduction during the 1980s. There was a time when the World Wide Web was used primarily by researchers of universities to share information related to their academic work with specific audience (co-workers).  Times have changed greatly and today social media sites like Facebook and Google search engine have become a part of daily life even for a layman living in third world nations. The developments responsible for this change within the web technology landscape are spread across different fields. The write-up tries to explore few key areas of in the course of evolution of web technologies.

Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)
The birth of HTML can roughly be marked with the birth of World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee, who is responsible for the introduction of World Wide Web, wrote the software for this browser and a server by 1990. The browser was developed to be able to interpret and compose content (just text) and display it on the web page. Tags were used on the back-end of web pages which were processed by the browser and content displayed in the computer. Development of HTML tags took place stage-by-stage, initially from displaying simple text to be able to display pictures and add better visual effects during the late 1990s period. The developers further went on to standardize markup language such that all browsers could interpret website in a similar way. Earlier browser specific tags were the standard for web pages. Today, HTML is continued to be used as one of the markup languages for designing websites both static and dynamic.

Other evolution of web technologies is Development in Browsers, Advancements in Web Server Technology, and Web Technology of the Future. 






References:

http://www.evolutionoftheweb.com/

http://www.inurture.co.in/evolution-of-web-technologies-and-the-future/

https://www.eploy.co.uk/about-eploy/theblog/may-2012/the-evolution-of-web-technologies/

http://www.vizzuality.com/projects/web-evolution







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